officer-safety
17 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-863 | G'Ante Butler v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-01-20 | Pending | Response Waived | assault-definition circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law officer-safety statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 111(b) is violated only by forcibly assaulting a federal officer, or may be violated by forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, in… |
| 25-709 | West Virginia v. Michael Keith Allman | West Virginia | 2025-12-18 | Pending | custodial-arrest evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Whether the State must show that an arrestee could access a weapon or destructible evidence from a bag the arrestee was carrying immediately before ar… | |
| 25-331 | Patrick Wayman Scullark, Jr. v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-09-22 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | arrestee-bag evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment categorically permits warrantless searches of bags carried by arrestees at the time of arrest but inaccessible to them at… |
| 24-6593 | Juan Guerrero v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-review fourth-amendment officer-safety protective-sweep suppression-ruling vehicle-search | 1. Whether the First Circuit erred in reversing the District Court's suppression ruling by holding that an officer's actual fear for their safety is n… |
| 22-1157 | Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop | 1. Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and r… |
| 20-1668 | City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (4) | deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | 1. Whether use of force that is reasonable at the moment it is employed can nonetheless violate the Fourth Amendment if the officers recklessly or del… |
| 20-564 | Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend… |
| 20-6055 | Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | MUST AN OFFICER HAVE A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT A COMPANION OF AN ARRESTEE IS ARMED AND DANGEROUS, INDEPENDENTLY OF A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT THE A… |
| 20-5967 | John Elisha Mayville v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop | Whether an officer can spend his time conducting unrelated investigations, such as a dog sniff, while he is waiting for the results of a twelve minute… |
| 20-5829 | Jerry Fruit v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search? |
| 19-8594 | Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether "officer safety" can justify the seizure of a person for a Terry stop, instead of pointing to specific, articulable facts that lead him to rea… |
| 19-7432 | Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | 1. Whether this Court should reconsider the reasonableness of its premise in Michigan v. Long; 463 U.S. 1032 (1983), that officers could reasonably fe… |
| 18-9393 | Tarell McIlwain v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-23 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | When a police officer makes a lawful custodial arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of the arrestee's person to protect officer s… |
| 18-8783 | Daniel R. Kendricks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant firearm fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety plain-view search-and-seizure search-warrant | The Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement officers, already searching pursuant to a valid warrant, to search and seize readily apparent contraband … |
| 18-7882 | Christopher M. Gates v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force | A. Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or "Terry stop," where there is a risk to officer safety. B. Whethe… |
| 18-943 | Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf… | |
| 18-5987 | Ajohntae Hammond v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search | When deciding whether a police officer's fear for his safety justified a warrantless search of a person not suspected of any crime, may courts limit t… |